From: Al Gilman 
Subject: Re: webwatch-l www.guidedogs.com  not accessible via Windows
to follow up on what Pete Donahue said:
> 
> ...  I would very strongly urge all Guide Dogs GRaduates to contact
> GDB, and let them know on no uncertain terms that this kind ofdesign is
> unacceptible; expecially when it comes from an agency for the blind.  One
> wonders if the company hosting this web site was given a lesson in making
> ttheir web pages accessible for the blind.  Why did Guide Dogs not demand
> that this be done?  This situation needs to be remedied if we are to be
> able to access the material on this site in Windows.  Again, I want to
> urge GDB Graduates to contact both Guide Dogs for the Blind, and members
> of the GDB Gracuate Counsel to see to it  that the GDB Site is redesigned
> to permit Windows access by the blind.
> 
Please put down that flamethrower until we get to the bottom of
your troubles.  A pass through Bobby and a quick glance with Lynx
both rate this design rather accessible.
It may not be the site that is at fault, here.
I myself am not volunteering to do any Windows debugging at the
moment, but there are others on webwatch-l who can help you if
you can't isolate the source of the problem.  From the evidence I
have been able to turn up, it doesn't look like the way the site
uses HTML is the problem.
-- Al Gilman
   Bobby. URL: http://www.guidedogs.com/, Mon Oct 6 16:48:35 EDT 1997
   Browser Compatibility: Explorer 3.0,Navigator 3.0,HTML 3.2,Lynx 2.7
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   Click on error messages to find out more information
   
                                 Accessibility
                                       
   Congratulations! This web page earns a Bobby rating of four stars.
   This is the highest possible rating. You are entitled to use the
   [1]Bobby Approved icon.
   The following section contains a list of accessibility problems for
   this page. To the left of each problem description is a red line which
   indicates the severity of the problem. The longer the red line, the
   more important it is to fix the problem. On text-only browsers, the
   red line will appear as several letter X's in a row.
   ** [2]HTML tables are often incorrectly read by screen readers.
   Line 20: 
   * [3]Background images can sometimes make pages unreadable.
   Line 15: http://www.guidedogs.com/cgi-bin/jpegselect/images/backgro
   und" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF">
   * [4]No text-only link found. You might need to add a text-only
   version of this web page.
   
                             Browser Compatibility
                                       
   No browser compatibility problems
       
                                 Download Time
                                       
   The following three column table gives statistics about the images on
   this page. The first column contains the URL of each image, the second
   column the image size in kilobytes, and the third column the image's
   approximate download time when using a 14.4kb modem. An arbitrary
   delay of 0.6 seconds has been added to each download time to allow for
   slow-downs caused by HTTP connection and request times.
   URL
   Size (Kb)
   Time (seconds)
   http://www.guidedogs.com/ 3.8 2.12
   images/guidedogshead.jpg 35.5 19.73
   images/differencelink.gif 2.6 1.45
   http://www.guidedogs.com/cgi-bin/jpegselect/images/background 1.0 0.56
   images/sidepic2.jpg 52.2 29.01
   images/servicelink.gif 2.7 1.49
   images/careerlink.gif 2.4 1.32
   images/applyinfolink.gif 2.9 1.60
   images/dogline.gif 2.3 1.30
   images/nodot.gif 1.0 0.58
   images/calendarlink.gif 2.3 1.26
   images/aboutlink.gif 2.9 1.59
   images/traininglink.gif 2.4 1.31
   images/newslink.gif 2.2 1.23
   images/welcome.gif 2.9 1.60
   images/puppylink.gif 2.1 1.18
   images/breedinglink.gif 3.0 1.64
   images/resourcelink.gif 2.2 1.25
   images/guestlink.gif 2.3 1.30
   Total 128.7 71.51
   
Bobby finished.
References
   1. http://www.cast.org/bobby1.3/bobbyapproved.html
   2. http://www.cast.org/bobby1.3/doc/tables.html
   3. http://www.cast.org/bobby1.3/doc/background.html
   4. http://www.cast.org/bobby1.3/doc/textonly.html
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